{"nrhp_refnum":"93001128","name":"Killahevlin","other_names":["112-240"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1401 N Royal Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Front Royal","county":"Warren County","state":"VA","lat":38.93681479300005,"lon":-78.19348773999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-10-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Conservation","Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-and-one-half-story brick house in a modified Queen Anne style, built about 1905 on 2.92 landscaped acres at the northern edge of Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was designed by the firm of A. B. Mullett and Co. of Washington, D.C., for William E. Carson.","why_significant":"The house is tied to William E. Carson, who headed Virginia's Conservation and Development Commission and worked for ten years to bring about the Shenandoah National Park. It is also an example of Queen Anne-style domestic architecture by the Mullett firm, with surviving outbuildings and landscaped grounds.","narrative":"Killahevlin is a brick house of two and a half stories at 1401 N. Royal Avenue, on the northern edge of Front Royal. Built about 1905 in a modified Queen Anne style, it was designed by the Washington firm of A. B. Mullett and Co. for William E. Carson, a member of a local lime-manufacturing family. Alterations around 1926 added an enclosed, shingled sleeping porch across the second-floor front and extended the dining room. The terraced grounds hold stone retaining walls, mature trees, a brick guest house with a water tower, and two octagonal gazebos. The house is notable for its association with Carson, who in the 1920s was appointed by Governor Harry Byrd to lead Virginia's Conservation and Development Commission. Carson spent about ten years promoting the creation of Shenandoah National Park and worked to encourage tourism in the state. At the time of listing, the property was being renovated as a bed-and-breakfast.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"A. B. Mullett and Co., Washington, D.C. (most likely Frederick M. Mullett, according to Mullett family historians)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"House and grounds were in fair to good condition and were being renovated for use as a bed-and-breakfast guest house.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.274682-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/6840/41684029/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93001128.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001128/0dc59fa46d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001128/0dc59fa46d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"self","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Killahevlin_from_driveway.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">self</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Killahevlin_from_driveway.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684029","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killahevlin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15238460"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/warren-county/killahevlin-93001128/"}